Black Stork Nest In Karula 2023.

[Swenja]

Karl II brings nesting material.

[Swenja]

He also takes care of the edge of the nest.
But not on the right edge.



Kaia does that.

[Anne7]

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[Anne7]

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16:44 Kaia gets up.

She preens.

Beautiful Kaia


She shakes her feathers.

The chick quacks. Several times.

Kaia gently touches an egg.


She rolls the eggs, carefully.


16:47 Kaia covers the eggs

[Anne7]

It's windy.

And apparently a bit too hot for Kaia.

[Anne7]

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17:21 Kaia gets up

She preens.


She aerates the nest floor.

Egg talk. Many times.
Maybe two chicks.



Kaia shakes her plumage.


17:23 She covers the eggs. I didn't see the pips (hole(s)) in the eggshell(s) this time.

[Swenja]

17:57 Kaia stands up, is preening a little bit and loosens the nest floor.
She rolls the eggs and she fluffs up the pillows.



Kaia touches an egg. She wasn't careful about it.





Kaia covers the eggs again.

[Swenja]

18:11 Kaia observes something.







Nothing we can see or hear.

[Swenja]

18:23 Kaia gets up.
Kaia loses her balance. It is windy.



puts a branch on another place.



She loosens the bottom of the nest, does ps



and covers the eggs again.

Chicks call. Are there two chicks we hear or does the one chick have an echo?

[Anne7]

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Chicks call. Are there two chicks we hear or does the one chick have an echo?

I don’t know, Swenja, but I think two chicks are babbling.

The chicks are making themselves heard!
18:24 much and quite loud quacking.

[Swenja]

The chicks are making themselves heard!
18:24 much and quite loud quacking.

Kaia doesn't turn the eggs so we can see.

[Anne7]

Kaia doesn't turn the eggs so we can see.

I hope at least the oldest chick has made some clear progress in hatching by now.

… The final, climax phase of hatching, in which the chick emerges from the shell, varies from a few minutes in small songbirds to a day or more. In the [domestic] chicken, the chick punctures the air cell about thirty hours before hatching, makes its first pip of the eggshell at twelve hours before hatching, and starts to rotate within the shell just fifty minutes before it emerges. In the guillemot, the air cell is punctured thirty-five hours before hatching; the first pip appears at twenty-two hours, and rotation starts about five hours before the chick emerges. …
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-art-ha ... -explained

[Swenja]

Kaia stands up and moves the eggs just a little carefully.





Even as she covers the eggs again, the eggs try not to move.

[Swenja]

19:18 Kaia gets up and preens herself a little.
She loosens the nest floor but does not move the eggs.





She covers the eggs again.

[Swenja]

19:48 Kaia shakes her feathers and does ps.





She loosens the nest floor a litte and covers again.

[Swenja]

20:08 I think I hear two chicks.
It's a very high-pitched peep and a low-pitched quack.

Kaia loosens the nest floor a little.
She sorts the nesting material and moves the eggs a little.





She covers the eggs again.

[Francesca_V]

That is so cute! I've never experienced or heard egg-talk before.

[Swenja]

Kaia stands up and stretches.



She loosens the nest floor and does ps.
She loosens again a little.



Chicks speak softly.

Kaia covers the eggs again.



We don't see the interesting side of Kaia's eggs!

[Swenja]

Kaia airs briefly. But she still doesn't show us what we actually want to see.
She moves the eggs a little.



Kaia covers the eggs again. Chick talk is quiet.

[Swenja]

22:09 night vision



22:22/23 There's something moving in the hole.